Is Humility in the Decalogue Anywhere?

I was thinking last month about what one usually declares in public when it is time to "Be Thankful". There are certain cliches: my kids, my job, visits from so and so. But what about something more humble, something that is located within our ego, not without.

I think we should have enough humility to thank God for the things in the core of our ego that we think of as being "us", like let's say "literacy", "magnanimity", "kindness" ... these things that we think of as intrinsically our personal good traits, I think we should not act like we made them through our sweat and will power; they are more appropriately to be thanked for as something bestowed, not something that we deserved or had coming to us.  That would be a more rending, poignant, stirring prayer.

Comments

[Denise]

Wonderfully expressed Evan